{"id":2352,"date":"2009-06-18T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2009-06-18T13:24:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T18:24:28","slug":"fulfillment-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/fulfillment-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulfillment lies in taking the harder path"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Fulfillment does not lie in comfort, ease, and following one&#8217;s inclinations, but precisely in allowing demands to be made upon you, in taking the harder path. Everything else turns out somehow boring, anyway. Only the person who recognizes an ideal he must satisfy, who takes on real responsibility, will find fulfillment. It is not in taking, not on the path of comfort, that we become right, but only in giving.<br \/>\nPope Benedict XVI<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/happycatholic.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/well-said_18.html\">HT Julie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fulfillment does not lie in comfort, ease, and following one&#8217;s inclinations, but precisely in allowing demands to be made upon you, in taking the harder path. Everything else turns out somehow boring, anyway. Only the person who recognizes an ideal he must satisfy, who takes on real responsibility, will find fulfillment. It is not in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/fulfillment-lie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fulfillment lies in taking the harder path<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}